Aeropesca Curtiss C-46 hijacking
Curtiss C-46 Commando Unknown · Aircraft hijacking by the M-19
From Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport (EOH) to Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport (EOH)
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Occurrence
- Event fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 9
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
Unknown
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- HK-388
- Operator
- Curtiss C-46 Commando
- Onboard fatalities
- 0
- Route
- From Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport (EOH)To Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport (EOH)
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
The Aeropesca Curtiss C-46 hijacking (called Operation Aeropesca by the M-19) took place on 21 October 1981 on an aircraft with registration HK-388, belonging to the company Aerovías de la Pesca y Colonización del Suroeste Colombiano (Aeropesca), when it was covering a route from Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport in Medellín and was proceeding to make a stopover in Barranquilla, then they would go to Bahía Solano and finally return to Medellín. The aircraft was hijacked by a guerrilla commando of the 19th of April Movement (M-19).
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Spanish Wikipedia article “Secuestro del Curtiss C-46 de Aeropesca” (revision 175070839, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
Spanish Wikipedia article: Secuestro del Curtiss C-46 de Aeropesca
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 175070839 · 2026-08-28 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q126201742
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- es Wikipedia article "Secuestro del Curtiss C-46 de Aeropesca" (page 10902784, revision 175070839), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- operator is an airline according to Wikidata
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Spanish Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.